Improved distilling-apparatus



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JANE RILEY, or omommrrfo'mo,ADMIN STRATRI OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN D RILEY, DECEASED, assronos To HENRY G. DAYTON, OF MAYSVILLE. KENTUCKY.

Lam Patent 1%. 77,216, dated April 28, 1863.

IMPROVED .msmuse-armsarss.

T0 ALL-WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

Be it known that JOHN D. RILEY, deceased, late of Gincinnati, in the county of Hamilton, and State of Ohio, did, during his lifetime, invent a certain new and improved Distilling-Apparatus and that I, JANE RILEY, of Cincinnati aforesaid, administratrix of the estate of said JOHN D. RILEY, do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of saidinrention, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents'a side elevation, partly in section, of the improved distilling-apparatus.

'Figure2 is a horizontal section of the same, taken on the plane of the line a; z,.fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new'apparatus to be put upon a still, for condensing and separatingthe various grades of spirits, and consists chiefly insuch a construction of the condenser and water-distributor that, without the use of a worm, and without requiring large quantities ofwater, the desired results maybe quickly obtained. 1 l

A, in the drawing, representsacylindrical doubler, provided with a perforated bottom, a, and with an annular cover, 6, as shown in fig. 1.

It is to be set upon a still of ordinary or suitable construction, to receive the vapors arising from the some.

These vapors pass up into the doubler, through the holes arranged inthe bottom of the same, and into pipes c a, which project upward from the bottom, and'which are open at their upper ends.

Caps cl d are arrangcdovcr and around the pipes c, to deflect the vapors downward, which thc'n pass through perforations in the lower-parts of the pipes 01, into the main compartment of the doubler.

By striking againstthe metnllic'tops and sides of the pipes d, and against the annular'cover b of the doubler, the impure spirits and low-wines are condensed and are retained in the doubler, while the pure spirits rise through the openingin the cover of the doubler into the condenser. I

Upon the doubler is set a vessel, 13, which is narrowerat the bottom than at the top, and which has a perforated, flat, or other cover, e, from which perforated pipes f project upward. i

' The lower part of the vessel B is open, and communicates with the doubler, as shown, so that'thc'impurc vapor that may be carried beyond the'douhler will be condensed when striking against the covering-plate e of the vessel B.

Above the vessel B is supported a pan, O, through which the pipes f pass, without communicating with it, and which has a main bottom, g, and above that a false bottom, 7|, as is clearly shown infig. 1.

Into the space between the bottoms g and h is, from above, condnotdd water, through a pipe, 2', so that such water may serve to cool the sides of the-pipes I Upon thepan C is set the condenser, D, with its bottom, j, elevated above the false bottom it of the pan, so that a space is left between h and 1,115 shown.

' The bottom, 3', of the condenser is perforated, and from-it projects a series of closed tubes I: k, which serve as caps and covers for the pipesf, as shown.

The condenser isfilled with water or other'cooling-liqnid, and the tops and sidespf the caps nra-c'onse quently cooled.

The vapors arising from the doubler escape through the perforations inthe sides of the pipes, and are pro jeoted against the cool sides of the caps k, by which they are at once condensed.

The thus condensed vapors pass downward in the tubes 7: into the pan'C.

In this manner the condensing process can be rapidly and thoroughly carried out in a small compass, no

long worm being required.

Upon the condenser D rests, or above it is supported, a vessel or pan, E, which has a perforated bottom, from whicha series of veryfine pipes, l l, projects downward, nearly to the bottom of the'oondenser, the lower ends of such pipes Zbeing open, as shown in fig. 1. 1

Water or other cooling-liquid-eontained in the vessel E is, by the pipes I, conducted to and diti'used over the condenser, and a regular supply of fresh cool liquid is thus constantly carried to the lower part of the condenser, keeping the pipes It always at an equal degree of temperature.

The water, as it gets warmed in the condenser, rises therein, and escapes-through a pipe, 'm, projecting from the upper part of the condenser.

From the vessel Ethe pipes leads to the pan 0, tovcarry waterto the sarne, and such water escapes from the pan through a goose-neck pipe, n,.shown in fig. 1.

The condensed liquor can be drawn ofi the pan 0 through a pipe, 0.

I claim as new, and desire toseeureby LettersPatent- I 1. A. condensing-apparatus for stills, consisting of the pan 0 and vessel 1), and receiving the vapors through perforated upright pipesfth'at' are covered by the cooling-caps is, substantially as herein shown and described, the pipesfpassing through the pan G, in the lower "part of which cooling-liquid is contained, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. Theabove, in combination with-a doubler, A, made substantially as herein shown and' described.

3. The-.vqater-distributer E, consisting of a pan; from which a series of pipes l -1 projects downward, to conduct cooling-liquid to the lower part of the condenser, substantially as herein shown and described.

4. The arrangement and combination with each other'of the doubler A, vessel B, pan 0, pipes f; condenser D having caps k, and of the distributer E with its pipes 1, all made and operating substantially as herein shown and described.

JANE RILEY,

Adminietratriz of the Estate of John D. Riley, deceased.

Witnesses:

Lrzz'm DE WITT, J. G. Summon. 

